Sadly I can't think of many examples for things like this in my own life. I can trace some of my work habits back to past coworkers, but when it comes to taste and habits from my personal life, most of it comes from me trying things on my own.
Coming back after a week to share what I thought of it:
I loved the app itself and all the different ways to input values
the different game modes are quite creative
all the extra restrictions added by the different game modes make the puzzles a bit too easy for my taste
miracle mode is fun until you get a few numbers in, but then it becomes quite straight forward again.
all of the puzzles (at least as far as I played) follow the same pattern and when you notice it you can skip the whole sudoku part and answer it just by pattern recognition.
Just keep in mind that there are some very different options within the Linux world and different people here will push you towards different options. The two most common and most different options are Bazzite and Mint.
While both of them can definitely work well, in my experience Mint still leaves a lot of new users unsatisfied with it. I'm yet to see any windows user complain about Bazzite, so that's my recommendation.
Either way if you try one and it doesn't live up to your expectations, there's still a chance the other might.
10 introduced a bunch of cool stuff that made it seem like it was going places: WSL, the new terminal, multiple desktops. If you're able to ignore the sad state of the control panel and settings apps, 10 was peak windows experience (feature-wise).
Then 11 came around and fucked everything up. As someone who subscribed to MS Insider to run beta builds of windows and get updates earlier, win 11 was the first iteration that really felt like there was just no upside to it. It was exactly the same as win10, but with some features removed and a much heavier hardware requirement. Even Vista (microsoft's most successful OS) had some cool stuff going for it back in the day, but win11 was nothing but one disappointment after another. Shit it wouldn't even let you keep a clock on the second screen until like a year after release.
I wouldn't say it's nothing. It's a lot less meaningful that it used to be but it can still be effective. Whoever killed that CEO last year only needed a basic gun and they managed to make America slightly better with it.
Not exactly the same, but similar: when working with sprites for games, I often run into situations where I realize way too late that I need the size of each frame to be slightly larger than what I had been working with it.
You'd think that having the ability to resize an image by adding extra padding to each individual frame would be a pretty common feature in image editing software these days, but nope. I ended up writing a small tool specifically for that just so I wouldn't have to adjust frame by frame ever again.
Portuguese, English, Japanese, German and in a good day, Spanish.
Portuguese is native;
English and Japanese I learned from consuming content in those languages;
German comes from my family (though I recently started studying it too).
And Spanish because it's very similar to Portuguese so I just need to remember the differences.
It's like in anime when the characters use some "forbidden technique" that steals 10 years of their life span, then the anime ends with the character still growing old well enough.
I use it to parse log files, compare logs from successful and failed requests and that sort of stuff.